Visiting the American Bookbinders Museum The American Bookbinders Museum just opened in San Francisco, and I thought it would be interesting to visit a museum dedicated to the way (more...)
The Opening Pitch It wasn't all food and fun and Al Gore and Sheryl Crow; the 28,000 who came to Greenbuild in Phoenix had stuff to show, lectures to (more...)
Dubai Metro One of the latest toys in Dubai's futuristic sandbox is also the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, and an essential addition to the city's (more...)
Trucker's Jamboree, Walcott, Iowa, USA, 2003. In "Oil," Edward Burtynsky's latest series of landscape photographs, there's nary a drop of the black stuff to be found. Yet he still (more...)
When it comes to building or renovating a home, there are few simple choices. From styles and colors to location and design, there's an awful lot to consider, but, (more...)
Ceramic tile, as one miffed Italian told me at tile trade show Cersaie in Bologna, is an underrated construction material in the U.S. We tend to reduce it to (more...)
Permaculture is one of those great TreeHugging principles that integrates everything in a balanced, living system, takes many cues from Mother Nature, and works great when executed properly. It's (more...)
The 2009 Solar Decathlon has turned the National Mall into a solar village. Competitors from across the country and around the world have brought their designs to Washington, DC, (more...)
Visionary Treehouses by Baumraum Treehouses are an interesting branch of design. They are usually modest in size, certainly tread lightly on the ground, and can bring us closer to (more...)